Los accidentes de tránsito tipo automóvil-motocicleta: un contexto para la enseñanza de la física

Abstract

This degree thesis, in the deepening modality, presents the design, implementation and analysis corresponding to the development of a methodological strategy for teaching of physics, which is based on the importance of teaching it by relating it to the student´s contexts, with the aim of achieving meaningful learning. It consisted on the study of a car-motorcycle-type traffic accident to teach classical mechanics to the tenth-grade students of the 2S2 course of the IED Class School in Kennedy. The methodological strategy was preceded by a survey that wanted to determine the use of motorcycles in the student’s homes, whether they had accidents with them or no and the possible causes to which students attributed this type of accident. as well as by the systematic bibliographic review about the problems in the teaching of science. Subsequently, theoretical aspects of the methodology of teaching by active learningwere reviewed and served as references for the development and implementation of the methodological strategy in the class sessions. In the same way, aspects of the representations, the importance of implementing them in the development of our classes and the difficulties they present were analyzed. The methodology of the research is qualitative, the approach is interpretive as it sought to determine with each of the representations how students were understanding the accident, which elements caught their attention and how they explained the accident from their personal experiences. The results of the implementation showed the varied interests generated in the students when reading the text of the accident, likewise they were observed, in the different representations, the diverse causes to which they attributed the accident, all of them from their personal experiences, also, the difficulties to do some of the representations were evidenced.